Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-23


 Corrigan makes it plain that the Catholic George sell his books.
 There is nothing very encouraging in the fact that there are more than sixty thousand persons confined at the present time in pris- ons in the United States. This is nearly nine times the number of prisoners in 1850.
 A large number of brewers went out on 8 strike in San Francisco the other day and paraded the streets in broadcloth coats high silk hats and buttonhole bouquets, and car rying banners which stated that they were 'sslaves striking for freedom" This is a great country. Even it's slaves can dress well.
 There is work for the Audubon society in Iowa. A Laurens correspondent of the Iowa State!Register calls attention to great wrong that is being done in this section of Iowa. There are large number of men and boys engaged in killing small birds, and one day last week there were bought at this town over three thousand birds, and they average, shipping by express, from one to four barrels day, of sixty dozen to the barrel. The birds all go to New York city. These birds are all insect-destroyers, and if there is not stop put to it, farm crops must suffer from the exte1mination of these useful creatures" :" The governor of Massachusetts having signed the employers liability bill, it becomes part of the law of that State on September 1st. By the terms of the bill every employe who, in the exercise of due care and diligence, is in- jured by the negligence of a fellow servant exercising experimenting authority as part of his duty, may recover of the employer or corporation just the same if hs (the in- jured person) had not been in the service of such employer or corporation. But no dam ages greater than the sum of $5,000 can be recovered, nor shall the act apply to domes- tic servants or farm laborers.
 Experiments made at Ottawa, Canada, dur ing the winter showed that Martini bullets fired into bank of well-packed snow were completely spent after traversing distance of not more than four feet. Snider bullets, in hard-packed snow, mixed with ice, but hard enough to prevent digging into it with sheet-iron shovel, did not penetrate more than four feet. In perfectly dry snow, packed by natural drift, but capable of being easily crushed in the hand, bullet penetrated about four feet, and in loose e-drifted dry snow less than seven fest, though fired from points only twenty or thirty yards distant. Dr. Kimball, director of the United States mint, does not believe that New York spec ulators in silver will be able to corner the | silver market and raise the price. Says he: England gets her silver from Mexico and South America as well as from America, and | if American silver was forced up there would be greater export market for Mexican dol 1 lars. In 1878 an attempt was made to cor | ner the silver market and make the govern | ment pay an enhanced price for it, but we bought in London and it cost less than we l were offered it here. Shortly after we com mencsd the coinage of standard dollars the l San Francisco mint ran out of silver bullion and the Nevada bank put up the price, but we were able to go right on coining without asking them to come to our assistance. If anybody wants to corner silver he will get very tired of the job. This scheme, if there is anything in it, is simply one to make an-
 other article to speculate in, and there might
 be limited amount of speculation done.
 William A. Hazel, the St. Paul negro who
 is going to sue the Astoria hotel under the
 civil rights act, thus tells his story: I am ar
 architect and designer of mosaic stained
 glass and live in Minneapolis; am, however
 engaged in St. Paul two or three nights 1T the week. have had the greatest difficult,